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Filter by:After blood sampling from an arterial catheter, the reinjection of the clearing fluid (a mixture of saline solution and blood) is proposed to limit blood loss. However, the status of coagulation in this clearing liquid remains poorly documented.
Inspiratory Muscle Training(IMT) increases the strength and endurance of the inspiratory muscles, exercise capacity, quality of life and reduces the perception of dyspnea. It has been reported in the literature that it also has an effect on mechanical ventilated patients in the intensive care unit. In patients on mechanical ventilation, IMT is applied with modification of trigger sensitivity and with an external device. The aim of this study is to compare the effects of inspiratory muscle training with external device and MV modification on respiratory muscle strength and intubation time
The most common reason for not obtaining donation after brain death (DBD) or donation after controlled circulatory death (DCD) in France is refusal of consent by the relatives. Many observational studies suggest that consent rates may increase when the request is made by specially trained and highly experienced professionals. One technique that may maximize the consent rate is collaborative requesting made jointly by the physician in charge of the patient and an organ procurement coordinator (OPC). Although the general principles are the same for DCD as for DBD, several differences and specificities exist. First, withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments (WLST) decisions should be entirely independent from organ-donation considerations, in order to eliminate potential conflicts of interest. However, separating conversations about WLST and donation may not always be possible. Potential DCD situations often occur after an extended ICU stay with the development of close ties between families and staff. The ICU physician may therefore feel that suggesting donation during the WLST conversation serves the family-ICU staff relationship. An unblinded multicenter randomized controlled trial tested the null hypothesis of no difference in organ-donation consent rates between collaborative requesting (clinical team and OPC together) vs. the clinical team only (routine requesting). The potential donors met criteria for brain-stem death or had impending brain-stem death; none were candidates for DCD. Collaborative requesting did not increase the consent rate. The PRODON study will test whether collaborative requesting by the ICU team and OPC decreases the rate of DCD refusal by families compared to routine requesting by the ICU team only.
Severe Covid-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) infections generate major but inappropriate production of cytokines and, in some cases, generate anti-IFN (Interferon) auto-antibodies, inducing acute respiratory distress syndrom (ARDS). Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) have been reported to be efficient for improving the hyperinflammatory condition state and the respiratory function, which has been described in case reports or small series. The study aims to remove cytokines during cytokine storm and anti-IFN auto-antibodies (when present) to prevent developpement of an inappropriate immune response and to improve the clinical response to reanimation treatment, in particular the respiratory parameters leading to a rapid improvement of clinical status. To that aim, the study investigates to compare a treatment using TPE plus usual treatments in intensive care unit (experimental arm) versus usual treatments in intensive care unit (routine arm) in a randomised trial.
Fluid management in septic shock patients remain a great challenge. Insufficient fluid filling lead to hypovolemia, organ failure and increased death, whereas fluid overload was associated to an increased morbidity and mortality in several studies. Several invasive and non invasive strategies have been developed during the past years to monitor the hemodynamic state of septic shock patients, but no method has been validated to objectively quantify fluid overload in septic shock patients. The Body Composition Monitor (BCM) allow for measurement of total body water (TBW), extracellular water (ECW) and intracellular water (ICW) volumes using bioimpedancemetry. The BCW is daily used in patients who undergo renal dialysis to assess the effectiveness of fluid removal. The BCM has never been validated in septic shock patients. The aim of the study is to investigate the accuracy of the BCM to measure the variation of the TBW during a fluid challenge of 500 ml of saline during the early phase of septic shock.
The goal of this study is to assess the Long-term Outcomes of Critical Illness Survivors,including physical, psychological, and cognitive sequelae.